Tunebook For Ipad App Reviews

I have been using Tunebook for several years. It keeps getting better and more essential to my life as a musician. I focus on Irish traditional music. There are written versions for many tunes readily available on the web. Locally we play our own versions. So it is very enabling to be able to get a version from the web, customize it to reflect our local version, and then share it with friends. Now days it is very well connected to other apps so it is easy to share via email or text. I highly recommend Tunebook to anyone interested in Irish Trad.

This ap is just what I wanted for my iPad. I use the abc format for my music and I no longer have to bring a bag full of tune books to a session. A couple of minor points. The ! Symbol is ignored and does not force a new line in the score. When I am playing a set of tunes, I need to have a quick was to switch from one score to another. Perhaps a page swipe could display all the tunes in a folder.

Love the app!

I've been loading tunes into this app and I think it's great. I have a fun doing this. I'm looking forward to the day when I won't need to carry books to a session. The iPod version was good, but the IPad version is great. It's easy to type in the ABC music with the nice iPad interface. I'm looking forward to more improvements with the upcoming OS update.

Renders my abc collections accurately and provides a decent playback. I find the edit interface to be easy to use with symbols readily available in a toolbar above the virtual keyboard. Easy access to cloud storage to import collections thru internal browser or start up the program's internal server to upload thru a browser. Easy and quick access to any tune within one collection or across all collections with search function and sorting by key, title or index. I have my collections rendered as PDF files also for use in Goodreader, but I find Tunebook to be much quicker for accessing the tunes. Playback of tunes with parts works correctly if you have i.e. P:ABC in the header of your tune as well as labeling each part in the tune body (P:A etc.). Best app on my ipad.

This app does what it says it will do. Along the way there have been some bugs, but the creator is very responsive to them and fixes them well. There are little tiny things that probably can be improved. An occasional rhythm glitch shows up in the music playback for example. But what is important here is that the app is solid and does what is claims with no real problems while the creator continues to support it with improvements and expansions as time goes on. Printing throughAir Print is the most important recent upgrade. If you need to work with abc files and find it handy to have a full collection of tunes at your fingertips this is certainly an app well worth the money.

As noted by another, the midi feature doesn't seem to work. The display of ABC files is nice and the import/email features seem quite powerful.. Built-in editing. I'm sure I'll use it, but I find playback helpful to quickly screen things -- I'm a slow sight reader.

The app looks great, and has decent editing features. It's very quick and easy to transfer tunes into the app. I've got a library of over 15,000 tunes installed, and it's still quick and responsive.

As a traditional Irish whistle, flute, and fiddle player, this app has been invaluable. The ability to store the massive number of tunes available in ABC format for easy reference has been welcome. However, with so many tunes at one's disposal, the size of the library becomes an impediment. Most players will be working on a small number of tunes. There is no easy way to create such a list other than copying and pasting the ABC source for the tune into a new list, a cumbersome process at best. This app would benefit tremendously from the ability to add tunes to a favorites list, or at least a way to quickly copy a tune to a new or existing list.

Dump all your paper sheet music and have all of your tunes, and limitless others with you wherever you go. I still see people lugging notebooks full of paper sheet music at all the jams and sessions I go to. Tunebook eliminates the need for that and does much more besides. The built-in player is extremely flexible and provides the ability to hear any tune with any mix of instruments and orchestration, at any speed you like, which is a godsend for tunes with complex broken rhythms or odd meters. Plug your ipad into your stereo and play along with tunes with accompaniment to help you get your playing up to speed. If you don't already know how to work with ABC notation, you can learn all you need to know in a few minutes and the you can use this app to store and help develop any new tunes or songs you write or pick up at jam sessions. It's very intuitive and this app gives you instant access to hundreds of thousands of traditional tunes even if you aren't ABC savvy. I can't say enough good things about this app, if you play music, you need it!

I have long been a user of BarFly on my Mac. Delighted to find this App for my iPad. It's a little rough around the edges but I believed it will soon be smoothed out. The above was my first review of this app. Well the developer has ironed out the rough edges and it is one slick app. I no long have to carry around a notebook full of songs as they are on my iPad and ready to go at a touch.

This is by far my favorite app! I rely on this to recall tunes I know and to practice with!

I've been waiting for this app. I already use abc in Barfly as part of my composition workflow and to write out exercises and such for trombone. Now I can work wherever I want to. While the app has a few rough edges, it also has some really nice features. I like the ability to organize pieces into tune books. I also like the web searching and upload/download capabilities. It makes exchange with the desktop simple. It would be nice to be able to turn off the automatic repeating play. The instrument sounds are not great, but adequate for my purposes. I would love to see tunes paginated so you could flip through pages with a screen tap. That would definitely earn the iPad a place on my music stand.

It would be great if this had basic organizational features besides creating tune books - who plays a single tune at a time? I would love to be able to select several tunes & put them on a single page for a set, & compile sets into my own tune books. Of course this can all be done by manually editing abc files on my computer, posting them on the web, going to the web site and importing them into the app....but it would be great to have a simpler way to do this. On the other hand if you're serious about trad you should only have the sheet music in front of you for as long as it takes to commit a tune to memory anyway...

I am very happy with this app. I've been using this for quite a while and it runs very well. Easy to enter new tunes and edit existing ones, easy to download ABC files containing multiple tunes and easy to organize into individual tunebooks. The latest updates have been very useful. I have no complaints and I have no regrets in choosing this app. The idea of carrying all my fiddle tunes on my iPad is wonderful. One downside is that you cannot make "pencil-notes" on the sheet-music -- but that's asking a lot technically speaking. At a jam session I can look up a tune without having to rifle thru a fat non-alphabetized 3-ring binder for a tune. By the time I would find the tune it would be half over. Yesterday I downloaded 3 ABC files containing about 300 Irish fiddle tunes in total. Not only was the process fast and easy the app asked if I wanted the tunes put into 3 separate tunebooks. 5 Stars for this app!

Great for composing tunes, but the Play component no longer works and there is no one to contact. Disappointing.

I have found Tunebook to be a wonderful app. I have used it to download scores from the internet, view them and play them on my iPad and email them as PDF files to other people. It has all worked seamlessly for me. I can understand JohnMetta's frustration if he can't play the tunes, but I've never had this problem. He might tap the guitar icon and check the instrument, tempo and volume settings. The volume setting on Tunebooks is independent of the volume setting for the iPad itself.

I've been using it since it's beginning. I like being able to carry around my favorite music on my iPad instead of a big book.

Nice interface, and really great to be able to go to thesession.org and grab a traditional tune from within the interface. However, it's fairly useless to me if it doesn't play the tune. I can read music in a basic way, but I learn by ear, and so the whole point of ABC notation for me is to have a player so I can get the tune in my head. There's a play button in Tunepal, and an instrument selector, but when I press that play button, all I get is silence. Not sure if there is other software I need, like a media player, or if the play button is simply not hooked up. It'd be a real nice piece of software if it played the tune. As it is, it was a waste of money for me.

This app is no doubt the best app anyone interested in playing music can own. Tunebook has always worked well, with the ability to import large abc files and sort them according to index, title, key, or meter. Jerry, the app's developer, added a Transpose Key feature in the previous update which I have found to be enormously helpful. The recent update makes this app even nicer. The file management improvements are fantastic. You now longer have to be afraid of clogging up your library with a bunch of tunes that you might not like. Just download them to a tunebook folder, preview them and remove the ones you want to keep, then delete the folder to trash the remaining files. Also the multiple delete and other changes recently made to the app are quit useful. Lloyd